USD per year
Senior Platform Engineer
Location
- Arvada (HQ); Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle; Washington, DC
- Address: Arvada, Colorado
Employment Type
- Full time
Location Type
- Hybrid
Department
- EngineeringPlatform
Compensation
- $145K – $186K • Offers Equity
Overview
Quindar
Quindar builds modern, cloud-native satellite mission operations software with a simple mission: to operate satellites like servers. Our platform replaces fragmented, legacy ground systems with an integrated, automation-driven approach that brings modern software velocity to space operations. We're a small, fast-moving team with deep aerospace and software roots, energized by big challenges and motivated by the impact we have on real missions in this next chapter of the Space Age. If you want to work with sharp, ambitious people who push boundaries, move quickly, and are excited to take space operations to the next level, Quindar is the place to do it.
What You’ll Be Doing 👨💻👩💻 🛰 🛰
- Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain a well-designed and highly available software infrastructure deployed in Kubernetes within cloud or on-premises environments.
- Implement practices to enable DevSecOps with a focus on security and compliance for SOC2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Medium controls.
- Own the Kubernetes deployment strategy and work with the software development team to ensure a successful architecture and software product.
- Help develop secure ingress and egress to customer and vendor data centers in multi and single-tenant environments.
- Provide best practices for availability, latency, and performance of services.
- Work directly with Quindar’s customers to ensure successful architecture deployment to both cloud environments and offline or secure facilities while ensuring alignment to a clean infrastructure vision.
- Be part of the engineering team of frontend and backend engineers working in an Agile Scrum environment.
Tech Skills:
- Expertise managing Kubernetes-based architecture and providing platform infrastructure in a production environment.
- Strong proficiency developing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions using Terraform or alternative tools.
- Proficiency in Python and experience working with software teams developing distributed microservice software capabilities.
- Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic, DataDog,...
Satellite Mission Management as a Service providing cloud-native software to streamline design, test, and operations for satellite constellations.
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